ROBERT SCHULER
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, CA 90292		 phone: (310) 822-1511
fax: (310) 823-6714
email: schuler@isi.edu
INTERESTS
Scientific data management, Informatics, and Computational Neuroscience.
 
EDUCATION
M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Southern California, CA, 2008

B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Southern California, CA, 1995
 
EXPERIENCE
2004- Sr. Systems Programmer,
USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, California
  • Member of the Medical Information Systems Division and Center for Health Informatics led by Dr. Carl Kesselman. Project member on NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), NSF Community Driven Improvement to Globus Software (CDIGS), DOE Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (CEDPS), and DOE Earth System Grid (ESG).
  • Research and development of distributed scientific data management technologies including: distributed replica location services (Globus RLS), policy-based data replication, batch data transfer management. Co-author of several journal, conference and workshop papers on distributed data management.
  • Support scientists working at major collaboratories including: physicists at Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), atmospheric researchers at Earth System Grid (ESG), and earthquake researchers at Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC).
  • Developed tools for the open source Globus Toolkit for Grid computing.
     
2000-2004 Technical Lead/Manager,
Dynamx Technology Inc., Redondo Beach, California
  • Founding member of company that developed data integration software for clients including Online Computer Library Center (OCLC); Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with Warner Music, Sony, and EMI; major publishers including Time Warner Publishing, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, and Harvard Business School Press (HBSP). Acquired in 2004.
  • Co-inventor of dynamic service composition technique (significant to data integration problems) based on constraint satisfaction programming. Awarded US Patent.
  • Responsible for the design, development and for leading the product development team (6 members) for data integration software through multiple software development lifecycles and successful customer implementations. Provided technical oversight for offshore professional services (60 members in multiple teams).
     
1998-2000 Technical Lead/Manager,
XEROX Corporation, El Segundo, California
  • Early member of the Xerox Rights Management Center (XRMC) research and development team led by Dr. Prasad Ram. XRMC developed secure document management technology and a patent portfolio that was acquired by Microsoft.
  • Responsible for leading technology/IP creation process which resulted in expanding the IP portfolio of the team (5-7 members).
  • Co-inventor of format-preserving encryption method to secure content throughout playback. Awarded US and international patents.
  • Investigated secure document management techniques on a Xerox PARC project with the Los Alamos National Lab as part of the Nuclear Weapons Archiving Project.
  • Designed and developed rights management tools for the self-protecting document and rights management back office services.
     
1996-1998 Associate Software Developer,
Candle Corporation (now IBM Tivoli), Santa Monica, California
  • Developed the Candle AF/REMOTE outboard automation and remote access tool used by major banks, retailers, and telcos. Still distributed by IBM.
     
PUBLICATIONS
Papers

A. L. Chervenak, R. Schuler, M. Ripeanu, M. A. Amer, S. Bharathi, I. Foster, A. Iamnitchi, C. Kesselman, "The Globus Replica Location Service: Design and Experience," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Sep 2009, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 1260-1272.

A. Chervenak, R. Schuler, C. Kesselman, S. Koranda, B. Moe, "Wide Area Data Replication for Scientific Collaborations," International Journal on High Performance Networking and Computing, 2008, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 124 - 134.

D. N. Williams, R. Ananthakrishnan, D. E. Bernholdt, S. Bharathi, D. Brown, M. Chen, A. L. Chervenak, L. Cinquini, R. Drach, I. T. Foster, P. Fox, D. Fraser, J. Garcia, S. Hankin, P. Jones, D. E. Middleton, J. Schwidder, R. Schweitzer, R. Schuler, A. Shoshani, F. Siebenlist, A. Sim, W. G. Strand, M. Su, N. Wilhelmi, "The Earth System Grid: Enabling Access to Multimodel Climate Simulation Data," Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Volume 90, No. 2, p. 195-205, February 2009.

D. N. Williams, R. Ananthakrishnan, D. E. Bernholdt, S. Bharathi, D. Brown, M. Chen, A. L. Chervenak, L. Cinquini, R. Drach, I. T. Foster, P. Fox, S. Hankin, V. E. Henson, P. Jones, D. E. Middleton, J. Schwidder, R. Schweitzer, R. Schuler, A. Shoshani, F. Siebenlist, A. Sim, W. G. Strand, N. Wilhelmi and M. Su, "Data management and analysis for the Earth System Grid," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 125, 2008. (Also appeared in Proceedings of SciDAC 2008 Conference, 13-17 July, 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA.)

A. Baranovski, K. Beattie, S. Bharathi, J. Boverhof, J. Bresnahan, A. Chervenak, I. Foster, T. Freeman, D. Gunter, K. Keahey, C. Kesselman, R. Kettimuthu, N. Leroy, M. Link, M. Livny, R. Madduri, G.Oleynik, L. Pearlman, R. Schuler and B.Tierney, "Enabling petascale science: data management, troubleshooting, and scalable science services," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 125, 2008. (Also appeared in Proceedings of SciDAC 2008 Conference, 13-17 July, 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA.)

A. L. Chervenak, R. Schuler, "A Data Placement Service for Petascale Applications," Petascale Data Storage Workshop, Supercomputing '07, Reno, Nevada, November 2007.

A. Chervenak, E. Deelman, M. Livny, M.-H. Su, R. Schuler, S. Bharathi, G. Mehta, K. Vahi, "Data Placement for Scientific Applications in Distributed Environments," in Proceedings of Grid Conference 2007, Austin, Texas, September 2007.

A. Baranovski, S. Bharathi, J. Bresnahan, A. Chervenak, I. Foster, D. Fraser, T. Freeman, D. Gunter, K. Jackson, K. Keahey, C. Kesselman, D. E Konerding, N. Leroy, M. Link, M. Livny, N. Miller, R. Miller, G.Oleynik, L. Pearlman, J. M Schopf, R. Schuler and B.Tierney, "Enabling distributed petascale science," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 78, 2007. (Also appeared in Proceedings of SciDAC 2007 Conference, 24.28 June 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.)

R Ananthakrishnan, D E Bernholdt, S Bharathi, D Brown, M Chen, A L Chervenak, L Cinquini, R Drach, I T Foster, P Fox, D Fraser, K Halliday, S Hankin, P Jones, C Kesselman, D E Middleton, J Schwidder, R Schweitzer, R Schuler, A Shoshani, F Siebenlist, A Sim, W G Strand, N Wilhelmi, M Su and D N Williams, "Building a global federation system for climate change research: the earth system grid center for enabling technologies (ESG-CET)," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 78, 2007. (Also appeared in Proceedings of SciDAC 2007 Conference, 24.28 June 2007, Boston, MA.)

S. G. Erberich, J. C. Silverstein, A. Chervenak, R. Schuler, M. D. Nelson, "Globus MEDICUS - Federation of DICOM Medical Imaging Devices into Healthcare Grids," Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, IOS Press, Volume 126, p:269-278, 2007. (Also appeared in Proceedings of HealthGrid 2007 Conference, April 24-27, 2007, Geneva.)

S. Bharathi, B. K. Kim, A. Chervenak, R. Schuler, "Combining Virtual Organization and Local Policies for Automated Configuration of Grid Services," in Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multi-agent and Grid Systems (SOAS2005), Glasgow, Scotland, December 2005.

A. Chervenak, R. Schuler, C. Kesselman, S. Koranda, B. Moe, "Wide area data replication for scientific collaborations," in Proceedings of 6th IEEE/ACM Int'l Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2005), November 2005.

Patents
P. Ram, A. Ramanuj, R. Schuler, "Dynamic Software Composition in a Component-based Software System," US Patent 7,448,022, November 2008.

T. T. Ta, P. Ram, R. Schuler, A. Ramanuj, G. Lao, X. Wang, "System and method for protection of digital works," US Patent 7,068,787, July 2006. Issued as Europe Patent 1 146 411 B1.

Presentations
R. Kettimuthu, A. Chervenak, R. Schuler, "Globus Data Services for Science," Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference, Oakland, CA, May 2008.

R. Schuler, "Globus Data Replication for Developers," GridWorld, Washington, D.C., September 2007.

R. Schuler, A. Chervenak, "A WS-NameMapper Specification," Replication Working Group, Global Grid Forum, Boston, MA, October 2005.

C. Kesselman, R. Schuler, "Service-Oriented Infrastructure," International Grid Workshop, San Diego, CA, September 2005.

R. Schuler, "Digital Rights Management: An Integrated Perspective," SIIA 2000 Annual Conference, Software & Information Industry Association, San Diego, CA, April 2000.

R. Schuler, "Digital Rights Management for Digital Cinema," in Proceedings of Digital Cinema 2000, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, January 2000.